How often do you 'reboot'?
rampancy:
I'm just curious, really...
At what points, if any, do you decide to just wipe your neighborhoods back to their un-altered states (be it back to the shipped state, or whatever 'clean' template, whatever) and start again?
I never intend to, but I always start over when I get my hands on a new expansion. I think about going back to the Sims I created previously, but by then I've lost most of my (for lack of a better term) emotional connection to those characters. So I start over with a new expansion, play until I get bored, and abandon the game until the new expansion comes out... and wipe those characters out.
What about you? When do you just want to restart?
Zazazu:
I create new 'hoods. After I don't play a particular 'hood for a month, I back it up on my alternate drive and my memory stick, then delete from the game. This generally happens when I start to feel like my neighborhood has too many sims and I don't want to neglect any of them but I really only like three or four, or if I get too attached to the tester sims I play while I'm waiting for hacks to be updated, or if I just want to play with terrain creation again.
Shivani:
I generally only use the Eaxis 'hoods for testing or challenges, but otherwise ignore or delete them. And then I create a new 'hood, play it for a while, and generally abandon it when a new EP comes out and start another one, though I back up all neighborhoods pre-update.
But I do extract sims I become very fond of and turn them into saved sims, custom N001 template townies, or default facial template replacements.
Kazzandra:
So far, only once. I started with some interesting characters as adults. I backed up that hood and am currently playing a hood where those characters are 'born' (I use SimPE to clone them ingame before I left ye olde hoode and reintroduce them as toddlers. I created their parents by using their faces as templates and messing with the silders a bit). That way, I can see that particular generation grow up before I go rushing off into the distant future.
EAxis Hoods? I opened one accidentally before I knew I could delete them all. Out of curiosity, I loaded the Goth house-- (because I remember my Sim living with them in the console Sims: Bustin' Out) and was unimpressed.
Other than that, I have my MATY hood and a testing hood, and that's it.
Lum:
Wow, you guys. I've been playing for 2 or 3 years, and I've never, ever rebooted. I'm on a fourth gen with several family lines, and just looking at the complicated family tree... which is HUGE... brings me inexplicable joy. Everyone is vaguely related somehow, because the nearest thing I had for founder couple had 6 kids. Another founding couple had 2 kids, but the male sim had a mistress by the side that gave birth to twins, and then... well, I'm telling you, the family tree is HUGE. When lacking proper mates, they've been known to marry townie or Maxoid sims. The Goth and Dreamer families live on in my game, but I killed the Pleasant twins because they didn't pass the prettiness test when they grew up. Haven't had much use to other Maxoid sims. I believe I killed the Caliente sisters early on.
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